igio.] E. Brunetti : Blood-sucking Muscidce. 65 



H . stiinulans may quite possibly occur in Northern India ; 

 this species, if found, should be recognisable by the differences from 

 sangnis7ts;cus given above. 



Haeniatobia rufipes, mihi, sp. nov. 



9 . Himalayas, Nepal. Long. 4-5 mm. 



Head. Frons one-third width of head, yellowish grey, with a 

 broad dull bare stripe. Ocellar triangle with two pairs of small 

 bristles above and a pair of strong ones below. 



Front o-orbital bristles g, the upper 4 placed rather out of the 

 straight line, slightly irregularly, the lower 5 normal and well curved 

 inwards. 



Face whitish grey, with the usual bristles about the mouth. 

 Antennae blackish, arista with 7 long hairs above, and 5 below. 

 Palpi reddish yellow^, with black bristles, which are more numerous 

 at the tip. Proboscis wholly shining black, slightly longer than 

 palpi. Back of head grey, occipital orbit normally fringed with 

 bristles. 



Thorax. Dorsum yellowish brown, with a broad median grey 

 stripe from anterior margin to beyond the middle ; this stripe edged 

 with a dark brown but not sharply-defined line. Towards the margin 

 of the dorsum the colour is much browner. Humeri grey. The 

 median grey stripe appears blackish, if viewed from behind. The 

 whole of the sides of the thorax uniformly blackish grey , with minute 

 sparse black pubescence. vScutellum brownish yellow, with minute 

 pubescence, two strong spiny bristles tow^ards each side. The two 

 apical bristles are broken off, but appear to be strong. ChcBtotaxy . 

 Humeral bristles 3 (one or more sometimes weaker) ; post- 

 humeral I ; ])ricsutural i ; noto-pleural 2 ; supra-alar 2 ; intra- 

 alar i ; post-alar i ; meso-pleural 10, the uppermost placed just 

 below the hindermost noto-pleural ; sterno-pleural i : i. The dorso- 

 central bristles not very conspicuous, apparently r before. 5 or 4 

 behind suture and a hindermost very strong one. 



Abdomen. Yellowish grey ; a narrow median l)lack strii)e ; 

 each segment mainly occupied by a pair of large blackish spots 

 of irregular shape. Whole dorsum covered with soft hairs. Belly 

 grey. 



Legs. Reddish yellow. Fore femora (except extreme tips), 

 tips of hind femora, and the tarsi, blackish. Fore femora with 

 rows of long stiff hairs on outer and lower sides ; middle femora 

 with 2 curved hairs above, at ti]) ; hind femora with a few longish 

 hairs above at tip, one below. ^Middle tibiic with 2 or 3 bristles 

 at tip, hind tiln;e with one l)ristle behind, at tij). Legs minutely 

 ])ubescent. 



Wings clear, outer cross-x-ein nearl>- straight, Teguhe yellow- 

 ish ; halteres yellow. 



Described from 2 9 9 in tin- Indian Museum. Darjiling 

 (6,000 ft.), 2Q-ix-o8 [Brunetti , typc| ; and Noalpur, Nepal, 23-ii-0(S. 



